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Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings 7 December 2009
Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings 7 December 2009
1: The
World’s First 3D FIFA World Cup
Sony New Zealand LimitedCape Town, South Africa: Sony Corporation and FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association) today announced an agreement for selected media rights of the 2010 FIFA World Cup™ in 3D. FIFA is to produce the world’s first FIFA World ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0912/S00148.htm
2:
Factory
dairy farming arrives in New Zealand
Green PartyNew Zealand is on the brink of introducing factory farming of dairy cows, the Green Party said today. Consent applications were recently lodged with Environment Canterbury for factory-style dairy farms in the Mackenzie Basin. Three companies plan to establish ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0912/S00079.htm
US Department of State - Background NoteGeography Area: 582,000 sq. km. (224,710 sq. mi.), about the size of Texas. Cities (2001 census): Capital --Gaborone (pronounced ha-bo-ro-neh), pop. 186,007. Other towns --Francistown (83,023), Selebi-Phikwe (49,849), Molepolole (54,561), Kanye ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0912/S00122.htm
US Department of State - Background NoteGeography Area: 118,484 sq. km. (45,747 sq. mi.); land the size of Pennsylvania, with a lake the size of Vermont. Cities: Capital --Lilongwe. Other cities --Blantyre (the commercial capital), Zomba, Mzuzu. Terrain: Plateaus, highlands, and valleys. ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0912/S00121.htm
5:
Darfur:
Security Situation Worsens
United NationsThe security situation in the war-torn Sudanese region of Darfur has deteriorated in the wake of attacks that claimed the lives of five peacekeepers, the joint African Union-United Nations peacekeeping mission in the area (UNAMID) reported today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0912/S00123.htm
6:
2009
Roger Award Finalists Named
CAFCAThe nine finalists for the 2009 Roger Award for the Worst Transnational Corporation Operating in Aotearoa/New Zealand are (in alphabetical order): ANZ, BNZ, Infratil, Newmont, Rio Tinto Aluminium NZ, Rymans, Telecom, Transpacific and Westpac. There ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0912/S00086.htm
7:
Key
Pipped At The Post In Trans Tasman’s Roll
Call
Trans TasmanTrans Tasman’s 2009 Roll Call has elevated Speaker of the House, Lockwood Smith to top of its rankings this year. Each year Trans Tasman’s Editors rank all MPs on the basis of their performance in Caucus, Cabinet, Committee, the House and Electorate ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0912/S00082.htm
8:
Statement
from Andrew Little Re: Goff Speech
New Zealand Labour PartyFollowing a report in today’s edition of the New Zealand Herald, some may have gained the impression that I was not supportive of the views expressed in Phil Goff’s recent speech.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0912/S00083.htm
9:
PM's
Presser: Nigel Latta on the Section 59
Review
Scoop AudioPsychologist Nigel Latta and Prime Minister John Key announced the findings of a cross agency review of law changes relating to child discipline. Latta said he was personally reassured the repeal of Section 59 of the Crimes Act - taking away the ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0912/S00065.htm
10:
Telecom
fined $500,000 for misleading over
plan
Commerce CommissionTelecom New Zealand Limited has pleaded guilty to 17 charges of breaching the Fair Trading Act over claims made in 2006 when promoting Xtra’s Go Large broadband plan. Telecom has been fined $500,000 in the Auckland District Court today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0912/S00151.htm
11:
Feds
contradict themselves on
factory-farming
Green PartyThe response today from Federated Farmers’ leadership to the spectre of factory-farm dairying contradicts the line they took just six months ago, said Green Party co-leader Russel Norman.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0912/S00086.htm
12:
KiwiFM:
Criticisms A Media Beat-Up? Oh
Common...
Scoop AudioAudio: Wallace Chapman and Scoop's Selwyn Manning discuss whether confidence in Labour leader Phil Goff was eroded by the party's president Andrew Little. They say the issue is a media beat-up. Really? Well, let's look at the facts, quotes, and context.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0912/S00064.htm
13:
Call
for Responsible Behaviour in Southern
Ocean
New Zealand GovernmentGovernments of Australia, the Netherlands and New Zealand Call for Responsible Behaviour in the Southern Ocean The Governments of Australia, The Netherlands and New Zealand remain resolute in our opposition to so-called ‘scientific’ whaling. We are deeply ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0912/S00081.htm
14:
Rare
honour for Antarctic researcher
Industrial Research LtdIRL senior scientist Dr Tim Haskell has joined an elite group of Antarctic explorers and scientists by having a geographic feature in the region named after him.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0912/S00018.htm
15:
Climategate
Clobbers Con-Men
SOLO - Sense of Life ObjectivistsFrom the very first moment man became a thinking being, the predators among us wrinkled their noses in arousal when they observed how even the best among men became easy prey to superstition when confronted with an utter lack of evidence in explaining ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0912/S00080.htm
16:
Submission
to the 2025 Taskforce
Independent Business FoundationThe Independent Business Foundation represents the interests of the New Zealand Small to Medium Enterprise sector and provides a forum for informed debate and interaction at its annual Small Business Summit. Our Board of Trustees is made up of recognised ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0912/S00142.htm
17:
Scoop
Audio: John Key on "P" and
Unemployment
Scoop AudioAudio from Prime Minister John Key’s Post Cabinet Press Conference Today the PM discussed his government’s response to the drug ‘P’, unemployment figures, factory dairy farming, tax changes, the foreshore and seabed, Melissa Lee, and Copenhagen ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0912/S00066.htm
John DixEldred Stebbing, NZ recording pioneer died yesterday. Long long LONG career, recorded Artie Shaw Orchestra in Auckland Town Hall for radio broadcast in 1942, recorded heaps of artists in 1950s . . . Howard Morrison Quartet, Ray Columbus & Invaders, ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0912/S00085.htm
19:
Rufus
Wainwright Auckland, Wellingtn,
Christchurch
Chugg EntertainmentBreak out the diary, cancel your late February plans, and surprise your loved one(s) with tickets to something truly wonderful and intimate: the one and only Rufus Wainwright is returning to New Zealand for a very special evening featuring our prodigious wunderkind ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0912/S00078.htm
20:
Prime
Minister welcomes S59 review report
New Zealand GovernmentPrime Minister John Key today welcomed the final report of a review into the policies and procedures used by the New Zealand Police and Child, Youth and Family around the issue of smacking.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0912/S00089.htm
21:
The
future of dairy farming?
Federated FarmersFederated Farmers is supporting the right of farmers in the MacKenzie Basin to submit a resource consent application. It believes that ever tighter regional council and national rules may force other farmers to consider this type of farming too.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0912/S00172.htm
22:
Thousands
March In Support Of Copenhagen Summit
Greenpeace New ZealandAuckland Saturday December 5, 2009 – Thousands of people turned out today in support of John Key taking strong action at the Copenhagen climate talks.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0912/S00075.htm
23:
Latest
Smacking Law Review Offers No Comfort
Family FirstFamily First NZ is dismissing yet another report on the anti-smacking law which fails to address the real issues and concerns over the law change.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0912/S00090.htm
24:
Chauvel:
Speech at March for Planet A
New Zealand Labour PartyMy name is Charles Chauvel. I’m Labour’s Climate Change Issues Spokesperson. I just want to say on behalf of my Labour colleagues – including Grant Robertson, the MP for Wellington Central – thank you very much for marching today. Thank you ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0912/S00085.htm
25:
MARKET
CLOSE: NZ shares fall; Telecom, FBU
drop
BusinesswireDec. 7 (BusinessWire) – New Zealand shares fell for a second day, with Telecom Corp. sliding to an eight-month low after being fined for misleading advertising, and Fletcher Building drifting lower.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0912/S00174.htm
26:
Science
project at risk through lack of funds
Monarch Butterfly NZ TrustA science project open to all New Zealanders and used by many primary schools is at risk due to lack of funding. The tagging of Monarch butterflies to show their overwintering behaviour and an indication of climate change started as a voluntary ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0912/S00017.htm
27:
Rushed
ETS heading back to the drawing board
New Zealand Labour PartyLabour's climate change issues spokesperson Charles Chauvel is predicting that the Emissions Trading Law – passed late last month under urgency – will be back before Parliament early in the New Year, thanks to overseas developments that the Government ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0912/S00083.htm
28:
Radio
Adelaide: Is Labour's Left Counting
Numbers?
Scoop AudioScoop's Selwyn Manning and Radio Adelaide's Peter Godfrey discuss how distance between the Labour Party president Andrew Little and party leader Phil Goff has spilled out into the public arena, are Labour's leftists counting numbers? Also, NZ's Prime Minister ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0912/S00048.htm
Green PartyThe Green Party marks the 10th anniversary of its entry to Parliament tomorrow, Monday, December 7th. In 1999, special votes counted in the days after the general election saw Green MP Jeanette Fitzsimons win Coromandel and the Party's vote was finalised ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0912/S00078.htm
30:
NZ
dollar slides on US rates outlook
BusinesswireDec. 7 (BusinesWire) – The New Zealand dollar slid below 72 U.S. cents after figures showed American unemployment unexpectedly shrank to 10% and the world’s largest economy shed fewer jobs than forecast, raising the prospect of an early interest ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0912/S00134.htm
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